Hints and tips:
...Steve Voskuil, chief financial officer at the chocolate company Hershey, recently told analysts that prices of cocoa and sugar were “moving in the wrong direction”....
...You know, Brexit has tended to harden people’s attitudes....
...Swan was one of the scientists ridiculed as “endocrine disrupter cry babies” by JunkScience.com, a website run by a climate change denier and former tobacco industry advocate Steve Milloy....
...getting swept by the Boston Celtics in the first round of the National Basketball Association playoffs, the basketball supersquad led by Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving and coached by two-time league MVP Steve...
...“In some sense coercion often hardens people’s views,” says Neil Ferguson, professor of epidemiology at Imperial College London....
...In a sign of even more co-ordinated action, Facebook last week culled a network of pages all linked to Steve Bannon, Mr Trump’s former chief strategist, that masked their identity and used tools to appear...
...Steve Barclay, Brexit minister, was repeatedly warned by Michel Barnier, EU chief negotiator, that the EU would never accept a deal without the backstop in acrimonious talks last week....
...Then there is the attritional war against what Steve Bannon, who once advised Mr Trump, calls the “administrative state”....
...(FT) Lunch with the FT Apple’s chief design officer Jony Ive on Steve Jobs, the $5bn new campus — and why the unforeseen consequences of tech keep him awake....
...Mr Fertitta’s purchase of the Rockets tops Microsoft tycoon Steve Ballmer’s purchase of the Los Angeles Clippers for $2bn three years ago....
...But if Trumpism hardens into a durable political movement, it will create a cadre of determined ideologues and political footsoldiers....
...The New York-based fund house was targeted ahead of its shareholder meeting by Steve Silberstein, the millionaire philanthropist, over the asset manager’s voting record on executive pay....
...A millionaire philanthropist who last year embarrassed BlackRock by publicly calling on the world’s largest fund house to harden its stance on executive pay has filed a motion reviving the issue ahead of...
...gary.silverman@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Academy chain madness is out of control / From Steve Harrison...
...But oil paintings take several years to harden properly.”...
...Colleagues recall him grumbling: if Steve Ballmer of Microsoft has a problem, why is he sending proxies to see me?...
...Steve Webb, the Liberal Democrat pensions minister, believes CDC schemes could offer more predictable retirement income than individual pension arrangements....
...Steve Hege, head of the UN Group of Experts on Congo, said the army had spent more effort on making money from smuggling than on securing the population....
...“Harden up mate – there’s only 20k to go!” I take a deep drag of water from the nozzle at my shoulder, then push off again, attempting to jump-start my burning legs....
...Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West, by Blaine Harden, Mantle, RRP£16.99 Harden sheds light on the horrors of North Korea, with a gripping account of...
...Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West, by Blaine Harden, Mantle, RRP£16.99, 224 pages Harden sheds light on the horrors of North Korea, with a gripping...
...A nasty jibe from Oracle boss Larry Ellison, comparing HP’s directors to the “the idiots on the Apple board” who once fired its co-founder Steve Jobs, has rubbed salt into the wound....
...According to Steve Sandberg, a Canadian building up a portfolio in the city, the answer is “yes, with reservations”....
...Both the PassivHaus programme and British government targets for zero-carbon houses by 2016 are doing a lot for the promotion of timber building in the UK, according to Steve Oxley of Sustain magazine....
...Mr Bartlett said he did not believe the tussle between Luminus and TransAlta would harden TransAlta against his takeover proposal....
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